364, Lot: 558. Estimate $4000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.17 g, 5h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 72. IMP CAES VESPAS AVG P M TR P IIII P P COS IIII, laureate head right / PACI AVGVSTI, Pax-Nemesis advancing right, pulling out fold of drapery and holding winged caduceus pointed at snake gliding right, head erect. RIC II 1180; Lyon 56; Calicó 656 (same dies). VF, underlying luster, banker’s mark on obverse, traces of earthen deposits.